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[her-oh-in]

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noun Pharmacology.

a white, crystalline, narcotic powder, C₂₁H₂₃NO₅, derived from morphine, formerly used as an analgesic and sedative: manufacture and importation of heroin are now controlled by federal law in the U.S. because of the danger of addiction.

Also called diacetylmorphine, diamorphine.

Origin:
1895–1900; formerly trademark; < German Heroin < Greek hērō-, stem of hḗrōs hero + German -in -in²; allegedly so called from the feelings of power and euphoria which it stimulates

Can be confused: heroin, heroine.

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Somebody bring me some white bread to eat and a spoon for cooking my heroin.

Given that heroin and cocaine are both highly concentrated, these dealing networks are probably not large:.

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The best chance of limiting the heroin epidemic's damage is treatment, prevention, education and tough community-based policing.

Somebody bring me some white bread to eat and a spoon for cooking my heroin.

Given that heroin and cocaine are both highly concentrated, these dealing networks are probably not large:.

The heroin was hidden in a wooden shelf in the basket.

The threat of relapse hangs over any attempt to kick a heroin addiction.

Pychosis, blindness, wicked constipation-the side effects of street heroin ingredients-make the drug that much more appealing.

School officials and health care workers have grown concerned over rising reports of prescription drug and heroin abuse.

Another of my bright students was a female recovering heroin addict with a real work-ethic problem.

The rehabilitation clinics that serve them specialise in treating heroin and crack-cocaine addiction.

Opium production has been reduced, but heroin trafficking is still a problem.

But something happens after repeated exposure to drugs of abuse--whether heroin or cocaine, whiskey or speed.

Buprenorphine could end heroin addiction, curb disease, and cut crime.

Heroin use is so widespread among them, several of them said, that a few cannily.

Today's three main illegal drugs are marijuana, cocaine and heroin.

He was a heroin baby and is due to be reunited with his parents who have both rehabed from heroin addiction.

While best known as a food-borne germ, the contaminant has appeared in heroin with deadly outcomes.

Most of the heroin and cigarette traffickers have pushed off, though.

All overstimulate the brain's so-called reward system, as do the major drugs of abuse, such as cocaine and heroin.

It's even listed in the same sentence with heroin addiction and alcohol abuse on the websites of rehabilitation centers.

People who become addicted to heroin wither away and die.

Carfentanyl binds to the human opiate receptor thousands of times stronger than morphine or heroin does.

Methadone has been used for years to help heroin addicts quit spiking up.

Most opium, which is derived from poppies, is converted into heroin.

He also cited a study that reported even higher rates of recovery among heroin users without treatment.

Before her nitrous oxide binge, the junkie had used heroin and enrolled in a methadone program.

Heroin can turn your pious brother into a double agent of treachery you will never trust.

One theory about his life and death was the stomach pain that plagued him led to his addiction to heroin and ultimately his death.

The witness who had allegedly seen the duo turned out to be a heroin addict who gave inconsistent accounts.

As powder and crack cocaine overtake heroin as drugs of choice, burglary inevitably declines while street crime does not.

The father, alas, is addicted to a drug that is harder to quit than heroin.

Heroin addicts do not want to waste their time with treatments that offer them no help or benefit.

Heroin mimics a group of molecules called endogenous opioids.

Together they chase ruthless heroin dealers through the streets.

One describes a childhood of violent abuse, followed by heroin and alcohol dependency.

Heroin is a compound that will eventually leave the system, not reproduce, spread to others and destroy tissue.

He said it was normal for them to get high on marijuana or heroin and then turn in for a good night's sleep.

While casual cocaine use has declined, heroin consumption has increased.

The idea is similar to the way in which an overdose of heroin or morphine is treated.

It stems from the failure of the rich countries' attempts to prohibit cocaine and heroin.

The violence levels were extraordinary around both coke and heroin.

Local warlords, deep into the heroin trade, wield the real power.

Morphine vs heroin is another example where one derivative of a substance is illegal, another one is useful.

Of course, the heroin and cocaine trade was violent in a way and to an extent that the meth and pills trade is not.

Markets aren't in the toilet because they've failed to get their dose of monetary heroin.

Too engulfed in consuming cocaine, heroin and other drugs.

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World English Dictionary

heroin (ˈhɛrəʊɪn)

—n
	diamorphine, Technical names: diacetylmorphine a white odourless bitter-tasting crystalline powder related to morphine: a highly addictive narcotic. Formula: C₂₁H₂₃NO₅

[C19: coined in German as a trademark, probably from hero, referring to its aggrandizing effect on the personality]

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Word Origin & History

heroin

from Ger. Heroin, coined 1898 as trademark registered by Friedrich Bayer & Co. for their morphine substitute, traditionally from Gk. heros (see hero) because of the euphoric feeling the drug provides.

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Medical Dictionary

heroin her·o·in (hěr'ō-ĭn)
n.
A white, bitter, crystalline compound that is derived from morphine and is a highly addictive narcotic. Also called diacetylmorphine.

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heroin (hěr'ō-ĭn) Pronunciation Key
A white, odorless, bitter crystalline compound, C₁₇H₁₇NO(C₂H₃O₂)₂, that is derived from morphine and is a highly addictive narcotic.

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